"...Mountain Dog years have typically been ones of significant changes in the geopolitical landscape. They have signaled both the rise and the fall of empires, years of great frustration or advances by conservative or entrenched interests and setbacks for the same. At the same time, there have been significant advances in science, especially in terms of space and space exploration, despite the fact that the Mountain Dog represents a double-Earth emphasis. Double Earth would normally point to changes in ‘affairs on the ground’, which there were in past Mountain Dog years. This year and the next will have the Earth element as their transformative influence (Stem), and with that we have the phrase stated about great changes coming as a result of gathering small things. That phrase applies especially to nations..."